skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except when they aren't, because in some niches, you actually have customers who want a platform. Cloud computing is an obvious example. It's just not the general case for consumer stuff.

I think Cloud computing as a successful business comes from the same process as suggested though. It's hard to build the platform as a business by itself.

Amazon's cloud is an offshoot of their internal elastic computing needs. Google's cloud sort of is too. Microsoft's cloud is an offshoot of their enterprise software business, same with Oracle's. IBM has been renting computers to businesses since like forever, but they used to make calculators and typewriters. I've never understood what Salesforce does, but I dunno, now it does it in the cloud rather than customer hosted?

There's some maybe purer cloud businesses, but mostly they started with a simpler hosting model and expanded into cloudy offerings.

If steam was always meant to be an all the games store, it certainly didn't start that way. When it launched, it was only for buying/using Valve's games, and it expanded later.
I have no idea how their Discover "algorithm" works. At this point I think it's using posts I clicked on to block the author of as ones it thinks I'm interested in (it definitely is using that for suggested accounts to follow). I tried using the feedback feature on what posts I want to see more/less of but there's been no obvious improvement.
> How many of those have had trouble sending mail to eg gmail?

The whole appeal of email-style decentralization is that even in those cases, Google can only block you from GMail - not email as a whole, which would be far more deleterious, and is the ever-present threat in non-decentralized platforms.
Frankly, human rights is mostly a talking point. The US allies itself with plenty of other countries with poor human rights records. Saudi Arabia kidnapped a US resident and cut him into pieces but I have never heard any serious noises about ending that friendship.

Is Saudi Arabia’s treatment of gay people or women even a consideration? No. Political expediency is. China is the US’s chief geopolitical rival, Saudi Arabia is not.
> Also, at a social level - the worst kind of user has always been a help vampire, and LLMs are really good at increasing the number of help vampires.

Maybe we should hype up LLMs more so the help vampires and LLMs can keep each other busy?
As an European, I know many who oppose EU membership, but most educated people would not express it publicly because they are harrassed if they express their opinion -- supposedly only "less educated people" -- i.e. idiots -- support it.

It appears that opposing EU membership is kind of a taboo, and many educated people are afraid to express their opinion on the subject. Which tells you all you need to know about the legitimacy of EU.
So only major corporations that can afford go lobby EU bureaucrats should have any say? Any small/medium company that wants to introduce any better/improved standard will just be ignored.
The ultimate effect is the same.
Can you name another multibillion dollar company, aside from Duolingo that uses it?
I understand what you're saying, but you're not addressing the concern on what is alive or dead. Just because it sucks for you doesn't mean it sucks for everyone. Even if it sucks for 90% of folks, 10% of the Internet population is probably 10-100x what's needed for a network to survive and thrive.

Not everyone has the same goals as you.
Some people enjoy "socializing in the large". For one, I already have a robust personal friend group grounded in traditional social spaces (like my local physical community, former coworkers, friends from my college days, etc) that I don't need to find a communal space online to engage in "socializing in the small". There's nothing wrong with "socializing in the small" of course but for me that's just a group chat.
Or ... a US$1,000 pair of Luxottica spectacles.
If we ever hit agi this overall point:

“ the fact that this can not map to any kind of mechanistic explanation of what the ANN is doing in a way that can facilitate intuition.”

Will remain true imho. We will never fully intuit AI or understand it outside of some brute force abstraction like a token predictor or best fit curve.
Unimaginable sums of money can only come from oil rich countries. They are probably just mentally trying to accept that they are going to take the money from these nations.

The word "open" is still under threat in this scenario too.
Looks awesome, sadly it's All Rights Reserved + CC-BY-NC, so it won't be possible to implement it in Krita, GIMP or Blender natively.
I've seen threads on this very site where HN users proudly described laughing at people out in the street. These were not greyed out comments, either.

Elon Musk recently claimed that homelessness was a "lie" and that unhoused people were actually "violent drug zombies with dead eyes": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

You don't have to dig very far to see the hate. At the root is a deep, inhumane entitlement to keep "undesirables" out of sight and mind, plus a conviction that anyone in that situation did something bad to deserve it.
I'd be curious to learn why Secret Weapons (the makers of this tool) didn't raise $100M in venture funding two or three years ago, before the start of the AI video boom.

They were first on the scene with EbSynth [1], which was the first widely used AI-powered video-to-video style transfer and keyframe interpolation system. EbSynth gave rise to comedians like Joel Haver [2] and lots of others like him.

Several other companies [3] used EbSynth to base their technology on and wound up raising large seed rounds. Major musicians used EbSynth either directly or through these other companies to make music videos [4,5].

Secret Weapons was in a great position to conquer AI video and AI creative tools, but they seemingly slept on it.

[1] https://ebsynth.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY3y6zNTiLs&list=PLKtIcOP0Wv... (playlist with all of his animations)

[3] https://kaiber.ai/ and others

[4] Linkin Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY

[5] Magdalena Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLCHvRsgRQ
If closeness was basis for a claim, Canada would like to have a word. Lol. No, we don't. It's not our way.

Fun fact, though, you can walk from Canada to Greenland. When the winter sea ice freezes. I think it's about 20 or 30 km. This has cross-pollinated people, language, culture for thousands of years in the north.
Yes, nothing is certain but I do think it wasn’t preordained – a White House which took climate change seriously, which wasn’t so invested in fossil fuel production, might have shifted the conversation to making nuclear safer because it would also reduce the even larger ecological footprint of coal and oil production. Reagan famously appointed a self-described “anti-environmentalist” and counted the dubious accomplishments of increasing strip-mining and opening up land for oil drilling so pretty much anyone would have been an improvement.
Yeah I looked at that design, but I wanted the palm rests and contours. I don't particularly _want_ an infinitely programmable KB - just enough to have stability.
> And it does allow for technological evolution

That’s just silly because it doesn’t. Any new standard won’t be able to get any traction because no device would be allowed to use it.
NASA evaluated a bunch of options before deciding to de-orbit ISS. You can read a summary here: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-... (PDF)

About boosting to a higher orbit, they wrote:

"Space station operations require a full-time crew to
operate, and as such, an inability to keep crews onboard
would rule out operating at higher altitudes. The cargo
and crew vehicles that service the space station are designed and optimized for its current 257 mile (415km)
altitude and, while the ability of these vehicles varies,
NASA’s ability to maintain crew on the space station at
significantly higher altitudes would be severely impacted or even impossible with the current fleet. This includes the International crew and cargo fleet, as Russian assets providing propulsion and attitude control need to remain operational through the boost phase.

"Ignoring the requirement of keeping crew onboard, NASA evaluated orbits above the present orbital regime that could extend just the orbital lifetime of the space station. [...]

"However, ascending to these orbits would require the development of new propulsive and tanker vehicles that do not currently exist. While still currently in development, vehicles such as the SpaceX Starship are being designed to deliver significant amounts of cargo to these orbits; however, there are prohibitive engineering challenges with docking such a large vehicle to the space station and being able to use its thrusters while remaining within space station structural margins. Other vehicles would require both new
certifications to fly at higher altitudes and multiple flights to deliver propellant.

"The other major consideration when going to a higher altitude is the orbital debris regime at each specified locale. The risk of a penetrating or catastrophic impact to space station (i.e., that could fragment the vehicle)
increases drastically above 257miles (415km). While higher altitudes provide a longer theoretical orbital life, the mean time between an impact event decreases from ~51 years at the current operational altitude to less than four years at a 497 mile (800km), ~700-year orbit. This means that the likelihood of an impact leaving station unable to maneuver or react to future threats, or even a significant impact resulting in complete fragmentation, is unacceptably high. NASA has estimated that such an impact could permanently degrade or even eliminate access to LEO for centuries."
He got scared of their right to carry arms back then as a CA governor and started the gun control there.
There is not such a big difference in the median critique. There are scarce voices -- perhaps yours -- saying we should reform H1B to make it easier for immigrants to change jobs or obtain passports or acquire the visa in the first place, which Vivek has been very clear on from the beginning that this is his intention.

But the large majority of voices on social media are using this as an opportunity to sling broadly anti-immigration and nativist catchphrases, framing the H1B as a zero sum contest between the immigrant and the local. It's factually the opposite of the truth. Even if H1B doesn't get any reforms, it's better than nothing for both the immigrant and the US, but that would not be the impression you would get from the avalanche of people committed to the Lump of Labor fallacy.
YT-X: Browse YouTube from Your Terminal
Agreed. I think originally, it would have been more accurate to say IE was based on Mosaic. If I recall correctly, I think Microsoft bought out Spyglass Mosaic to base IE on, and that browser had been licensed from the NCSA. Netscape on the other hand had originally been Mosaic Communications(anyone remember home.mcom.com?) and changed the name when they did the clean rewrite. I think the name Mozilla came about because they were looking for a 'Mosaic Killer' or something along those lines. Memories are kind of fuzzy so I'm sure someone on here has a better recollection.
Worse for the inmates, better for the general public.
Fuse is terrible performance-wise. There are many better options

https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch?tab=readme-ov-file...

I tried Fuse, lunr and MiniSearch, and I stayed with MiniSearch. Great flexibility and very good performance even when I am indexing almost a million documents + many useful features.

Also, I would also recommend giving FlexSearch a try, it has some fancy algorithm that supposedly makes searches extra fast https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch?tab=readme-ov-file...
I've read dozens of these survey methodologies, and the reputable ones always tell you who they recruited to do the survey and what sampling method was used (if only in broad strokes). Given that this one does neither, we have to assume the laziest approach possible.

If they wanted us to take their survey seriously they'd have a real methodology section.
He ended inflation by causing a brutal recession through extreme interest rate hikes, which resulted in an irreversible shift in economic paradigms which caused the US to abandon its industrial lead as we faced recession, idle capital accumulation, and mass unemployment. The US became a deficit economy after that point.

Nixon, though he caused the original shock, originally wanted to keep the Bretton Woods system intact, but that was impossible after what he did.
Afaik Element Web (and the legacy Element mobile apps) are the only ones which have done threads so far, perhaps because the notif problems you mentioned put off the others. These have been fixed now, but others (even Element X) have yet to catch up.
Considering how most major providers got their data to begin with these are EULAs that are probably impossible to enforce, and none of the major players have given much reason to believe they would stick to it anyway. And why bother when local models don't have nearly the same complications?
Who and what do you think Gruber is shilling for? I don't see Gruber saying anything that might tempt anyone to part from some of their money. He seems to be doing the diametrical opposite of shilling.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642846
> I think our culture needs some general awareness and “antibodies” against Narcissism, and emotional manipulation in general.

This would be diametrically opposed to American culture lol
> Blaming Kennedy is a take I hadn't heard before.

Carter wanted to pass legislation to give every American catastrophic healthcare coverage, so that a major medical incident would no longer bankrupt families, as a stepping stone towards universal coverage.

Kennedy opposed this, despite being on record supporting universal coverage.

It would have been a major win for Carter, but Kennedy already knew he wanted to run against the sitting President.
Supreme Sexp System: Guix, Emacs, Nix, SwayFX, Wayland, Qutebrowser
I'm not sure your article agrees that cooling was the dominant thought in the public sphere:

> "While neither scientists nor the public could be sure in the 1970s whether the world was warming or cooling, people were increasingly inclined to believe that global climate was on the move, and in no small way"

And it definitely wasn't in the scientific world:

> Concern peaked in the early 1970s, though "the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then

Seems more likely that if Carter had an opinion it would be the scientific one, and even if he only read mass media on it he wouldn't necessarily think cooling was the dominant trend.
You're a sitting duck for people who want to attack you when you're inside one of these.
2024's ten top-grossing films were all sequels or prequels
"Colors in painting software do not act like real pigments.
Why? Because there was no practical way to implement true pigment mixing into digital painting." - not sure that is accurate - digital tools were developed such that they colour mix not colour blend. I'm not sure it's so much as there was no framework for it, so much as if I want to blend 2 colours I'd mix them then use a blend mode on a layer. Traditionally most people working with pro imaging tools had a background in colour theory, I can't imagine working on imaging and not knowing blue and yellow is green, so if I want green on my mixed yellow and blue, I'd either draw on with green, or draw with a blend mode if I want the exact green. Doesn't make this any less cool, just saying'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513063
Sure, the parts Stalin didn’t win.
> Sweden is long in the EU. CURRENTLY the expectation to new member states to join the Euro when joining the EU is different -> much higher.

I don't agree. It isn't just Sweden; Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Romania too. The time between EU accession and Euro adoption is normally a decade or more. If a government doesn't want to adopt the Euro, there are heaps of levers they can pull to slow the process down, and there is no way to punish a government for doing that. The easiest is that you have to join ERM II at least two years before adopting the Euro, but nobody can force you to join ERM II – so Sweden, Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Romania have all refused to join it. The only current ERM II members are Denmark (with a formal opt-out), and Bulgaria (which wants to adopt the Euro – it had hoped to do it 1 January 2025, but the ECB says their inflation is too high – 5.1%, the limit is 3.3%). If Bulgaria gets inflation down in 2025, they may succeed in joining on 1 January 2026.

When negotiating to join, the politicians say "sure, we promise we'll adopt the Euro", knowing that they'll likely be retired by the time joining the Euro is a real possibility.

> Sweden was also long not in NATO. Now it is. Similar, support in polls for Euro introduction is rising.

Yes, but that doesn't change the point – an EU member state (present or future) cannot be forced to adopt the Euro, it will only happen if the member state's government is willing, and they'll likely only be willing if it is sufficiently popular with their people.
You could lead by example and replace your own role with a "diverse" candidate?
How much memory can models take? I would assume the dGPU set up won't perform better at a certain point.
The last moral president. Always trying to do the right thing.

The last 'left' Christian. A politician that actually followed the bible. To bad Christianity has been co-opted by gun toting crazies full of contradictions like wanting to kill mothers and save un-born babies, then after they are born, not provide health care to the babies, spout nonsense about 'the kids', but then take away school lunches.

Even way back. During the Iran Hostage Crisis. The Republican's were dealing with Iran to hold the hostage's to sway the election. Carter got smeared with that for decades.
Majority of Americas workforce is white?
Not if your competitors are spending the same amount (or spending vastly less to get similar results in the case of DeepSeek).
There's not infinite spots where you can do it.
What's the vested interest here?
It dates back to one generation after language was invented. And bitching about it dates to one week later.
The deregulation of passenger airlines happened during the Carter years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
> Chelsea Manning lives freely in the US

This leaves out the fact that the President of the United States commuted her sentence. She was originally sentenced to 35 years in maximum security prison, which is longer than some murder sentences.

If your point is that speaking out against the government carries fewer penalties in the US than China, we should assume whistleblowers will receive the full punishment for doing so. While a 35 year sentence is probably better than a death sentence, its not something I would plant a flag in.
You cannot look at any American institution without seeing something that Reagan destroyed. His legacy has had lasting detrimental impacts to this day. Just some examples are the privatization of Colleges, the privatization of healthcare, the near annihilation of labor unions, he ignored the AIDS epidemic for years, his mental health reforms made homeless and crime exponentially worse... Watergate, Iran-Contra and the overthrowing of Sandinista in Nicaragua. All issues of which persist to this day. He is also the sole reason that we do not have national health insurance.

Thats not even touching the corruption, lobbying scandals, the grant rigging, the EPA scandals, the 160 billion dollar in "charity" given to banks to bail them out, Operation Ill Wind etc... You could fill books with this mans horrific legacy and its lasting detrimental impact on society. If you can trace the root of our modern problems to one man it would be Reagan.
Urgh yes. Thanks
> Google spent heavily to index websites without a clear path to profitability

Uh, they were advertising in 1999 already?
Isn't 'kin' an easy one here ? Genetic closeness first and foremost.
Doesn't matter. In fact, it makes it even funnier: all these investors spending billions of dollars on OpenAI just end up subsidizing the competing models.
There is no age of ai. Only a period of decent auto complete.

Nothing fundamentally changed in computer science since 20-40 years ago.
What's ironic about this is that Egypt no longer poses a threat to Israel because of these peace agreements and reliance on American foreign aid. If this were not the case, Israel likely would not be a position such that they could pursue military attacks against Gaza and war in Lebanon.
Even if Reagan and Carter were the same on deregulation, it would be a huge logical error to conclude that the parties were "the same." But it's even more comically wrong because it's being pointed out that the presidents were different!
This video was from three years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FN7fKlJcPE

Didn't know we were that far along 3 years ago?
Your point being?

I think everyone understands that there are higher-order consequences of externalities, which affect many (if not all) actors. That's why people are interested in the question of whether they are priced efficiently in markets, and it's why people are interested in ways to improve the pricing of externalities.

The question is not whether they are priced at all, the question is whether they are efficiently priced.
I think a lot of people outside Europe will see this as overreach by the state, but given waste cleanup is paid for by the tax payer and is an ever increasing cost/problem, banning products needlessly adding to rubbish when inexpensive reusable alternatives makes sense.
With StackOverflow, GitHub, etc. you would likely have people reach out to you for opportunities. With AI, if you contribute to StackOverflow and if it gets picked up by AI, people may or may not know.
If all you did was an entry level "bar exam, it'd be pretty much useless. A newly graduated CompSci student, is really just an apprentice, who may then (if they continue to work hard, and are given challenging work) go on to become a master craftsman/journeyman over the next 5/10/20 years.

The same is true of those other fields too really - I certainly wouldn't want a newly qualified doctor operating on me, or lawyer defending me, or civil engineer designing a bridge I'm driving over. It's nice to know that someone has been professionally educated and passed some entry level exam, but to be useful in a field it's experience that counts.
What do you suppose he is shilling, and for whom?

I don't know who this Gruber guy is, but it's relieving to hear at least someone talk some sense about the ludicrous levels of investment being poured into something that most users go "heh that's neat" and would never consider paying for.
They’re not selling Mistral, they’re selling a product that let’s you use Mistral
Hah, funnily enough this is exactly what I was working on this year :)
EbSynth was a sleeper hit and these guys could have built something huge. This predates Sora, Runway, D-ID, and everything else in the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP3u09_YFxk
Laptops have bo business being anywhere near USB?

I haven’t had a laptop with a barrel plug for the past 10 years or so. Why would you ever add one to a laptop instead of USB-c?